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TOY BANK. No. 296,689. Patented Apia 8, 1884.

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HENRY C. HABTAND JAMES XV. GROSS, OF DETROIT, NIGEL, ASSIGNOR-S TO THE HENRY O. HART MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE,

TOY BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,689, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed January 10, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may 0077106771,:

Be it known that we, HENRY O. Him and J AMES W. Cnoss, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Toy Banks, of which the following is a specification.

- Figure l is a perspective. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the front portion of the inside of the bank, the slide being shown detached, and Fig. 3 is a similar perspective of the rear end. Fig. 4 is a vertical central longitudinal section.

Our invent-ion consists in a toy bank so constructed that a coin placed therein is apparently caused to change into some other object.

A represents the frame of the bank, usually cast in pieces and fastened together.

13 represents the money-chamber at the bottom of the bank, formed by a partition, E, having a slit, D, therein for the passage of money, and 0 represents a door to give access to the money chamber, removably secured by a screw, as shown.

F represents a recess at the front end of the bank, darkened by theproj ecting top and side walls, having atthe bottom thereof asheet-metal partition, G, in which is a sight-opening, a.

H and I representpartitions similar to G,having openings?) 0 therein similar to a. I may be omitted, if desired, and H may consist of a sin gle piece of glass. At the rear end of the bank a slit, 0, is out in the cover, and a rack, N,runs from the cover to partition E, the slits O D being at the top and bottom of rack N. Rack N has projecting ledges (I! (Z thereon to hold a coin on the rack.

P represents a rock-shaft back of rack X, journaled in the side walls of the bank, having thereon a double arm, Q, with projecting bent ends 6 8, adapted to pass through the spaces in rack N and support a coin, M, dropped through slit 0, as shown in Fig. i. A lever, B, is also attached to shaft 1?, and a spring, f, constantly tends to force said shaft and the arm Q into the position. shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

S represents a slide, preferably made of sheet metal, whose edges run in grooves in the side walls of the bank, and long enough to reach from the partition G back of partition H. At the rear end of slide S is fastened an arm, 'I,

long enough to strike the end of leverlt when slide S is forced toward the rear end of thebank. The rear end of slide S is shaped, as shown in Fig. 2, so that it can pass the upper supports of rack N and completely darken the chamber back of partition H. A loop, g, is fastened near the forward end of slide S, in which works a pin, 7:, set in one end of avibrating lever, U, pivoted on a shaft, h, which runs through the wall of the bank and operated by a lever, V, on the outside of the bank.

t represents a spring adapted to force the lever U toward the front of the bank.

represents a pane of ground glass or other translucent or transparent material, which forms the top of the bank from the partition I G, nearly back to the slit 0, lying just above slide S. By making W of ground glass light is admitted, while the interior of the bank is hidden from view.

J represents a piece of clear glass secured by lugs to partition H, so as to cover opening I), and, as seen through the sight-opening, is tranr arent when light is admitted to the interior of the bank between the glass and rack N, but is converted into a mirror by excluding light from said portion of the interior of the bank.

L represents a rack similar to N, running from the lower end of partition G to the partition E, and having fastened thereto an imitation coin, usually of a larger denomination than the coins generally put into toy banks, or some other illusion object.

Glass J is so set that a line making a right angle with itssurface will bisect the angle made by lines drawn from a point on the glass to the center of sightopening a and the center of the illusion object, so that the glass J will reflect the image of the illusion object to the center of sight-opening a when light is excluded from that portion of the bank back of the glass.

The operation of our invention, as specifically shown and described, is as follows: The bank is placed in such a position that light from a window, lamp, or gaslight falls upon the glass plate XV and a cent or other coin dropped through slit 0, when it falls upon and is held by the projecting ends 0 c of arm Q,

resting against rack N. Slide S being in the position shown in Fig. 4c, the light passing through the glass top IV falls upon coin M and renders it plainly visible to any person looking through sight-opening a, the interior of the bank forward of glass partition H being darkened by slide S. By now swinging lever V slide S is moved toward rack N and darkens that portion of the bank back of glass partition H, thus rendering coin M invisible from si ght-opening a and converting the transparent glass J into a mirror, which reflects the image of the illusion object K back to the eye of the observer at sight-opening a. The gradual admission of light on one side of the glass partition and exclusion on the other apparently causes the real obj ectcoin Mto change into the illusion object, or, as shown, the imitation coin K. The continued motion of slide S causes arm T to strike lever B and swing rockshait P and arm Q, so thatthe ends 6 e are drawn from under coin M, which falls into the money-chamber. On releasing lever V spring brings slide S back to its original position.

The partition I is intended to hide the side walls and operating mechanism at the rear end of the bank, but may be omitted, if desired.

It is evident that the particular mechanical construction herein shown and explained may be varied in a number of ways without departing from the principle of our invention, as theform of the bank, the shape of the darkslide, and method of actuating the same so as to produce the illusion desired, may be easily changed; and we do not wish to be confined to any particular construction of the purely mechanical portions of our invention.

It is also evident that any desired illusion object may be substituted for the imitation coin shown.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a toy bank, an illusion object, a glass through which a coin deposited may be observed, and means for converting said glass into a mirror adapted to reflect an image of the illusion object, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. ha toy bank, a sight-opening through which a coin deposited may be observed, an illusion object, a glass placed between the illusion object and the deposited coin, and means for alternately admitting light on either side of said glass, while excluding it from the other side thereof, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. A toy bank having a translucent top, a

darkening-slide shorter than said top, proof said glass, substantially as shown and described.

4. A toy bank having a translucent top, a coin-support at the rear end, a sight-opening at the front end through which the coinsupport is visible, a partition wholly or partly transparent between said sight-opening and coin-support, an illusion object at the front end of said bank, and mechanism adapted to admit light through the translucent top on either side of said glass, while excluding light from the other side thereof, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a toy bank having a glass top, W, coin-support N, and illusion object K, the darkening-slide S, operated by suitable mech anism, and adapted to darken that part of the interior of the bank in which is situated the coin-support, and simultaneously admit light to that part of the bank in which is situated the illusion object, and vice versa, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

6. In a toy bank, acoin-support located in the rear end of the bank, a sight-opening and illusion object in the front end,and a glass in terposed between the sight-opening and coinsupport, and adapted, when light is excluded from the rear end and admitted to the front end of the bank,to reflect the image of theillui sion object to the sight-opening, substantially as shown and described.

HENRY O. HART. JAS. W. GROSS.

Witnesses:

HENRY YOER, JNo. G. RUMNEY. 

